© Reuters India stocks lower at close of trade; Nifty 50 down 0.72%
Investing.com – India stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NSE, the lost 0.72%, while the index declined 0.83%.
The best performers of the session on the were Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd. (NS:), which rose 2.58% or 155.90 points to trade at 6,204.70 at the close. Meanwhile, Nestle India Ltd (NS:) added 1.92% or 49.05 points to end at 2,610.00 and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd (NS:) was up 1.56% or 23.60 points to 1,534.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tata Consumer Products Ltd (NS:), which fell 3.06% or 38.55 points to trade at 1,223.00 at the close. Bajaj Auto Ltd (NS:) declined 2.47% or 219.65 points to end at 8,659.40 and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (NS:) was down 2.43% or 7.10 points to 285.55.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Nestle India Ltd (BO:) which rose 1.85% to 2,607.10, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (BO:) which was up 1.21% to settle at 6,400.00 and Bajaj Finserv Ltd (BO:) which gained 0.83% to close at 1,595.70.
The worst performers were Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (BO:) which was down 2.53% to 285.15 in late trade, Tata Steel Ltd (BO:) which lost 2.19% to settle at 153.80 and State Bank Of India (BO:) which was down 1.80% to 774.00 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the India National Stock Exchange by 1872 to 335 and 31 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 2929 fell and 880 advanced, while 119 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 2.81% to 13.99.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.01% or 0.25 to $2,185.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.05% or 0.04 to hit $77.97 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.01% or 0.01 to trade at $82.07 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.01% to 82.76, while EUR/INR rose 0.04% to 90.55.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 102.32.